Penny for Your Thoughts
House of Cards
"Rights" This Way
Concrete Jungle
Risky Quizness
100
No government interference in the economy is called..
What is Laissez Faire Economics?
100
Define labor unions.
What is organized, collective bargaining units for working class laborers?
100
The economic practice in the south post-Civil War that looked remarkably like slavery.
What is Sharecropping?
100
The type of housing was most commonly used during the industrial era in large cities.
What are Tenements?
100
What track event did Ms. Hempy do in college?
What is the heptathlon?
200
Define the "New South" economy post Civil War.
What is a mix of industrial and agricultural?
200
This political party was called the "people's party" and worked to fix the concentration of power being held by the elites?
What is The Populist Party?
200
The removal of Native American children to boarding schools.
What is forced cultural assimilation?
200
The idea that you are born into your socioeconomic position in society and you cannot change it...survival of the fittest does not just apply to nature.
What is Social Darwinism?
200
What year was the first iPhone released?
When was 2007?
300
The idea that corporations and the upper class have a responsibility to philanthropy.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
300
This legislation was intended to prevent monopolies.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
300
The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson legalized what?
What is "separate but equal" public facilities?
300
Policy of protecting the interests of a country's citizens over the interests of immigrants.
What is Nativism?
300
In 1934, the image of this president was printed on the $100,000 bill, the highest denomination ever.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
400
Railroad companies were given what from the federal government to help with their development and grow infrastructure?
What is Federal Subsidies?
400
Name 3 Presidents during Period 6.
Who are Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, McKinley, & Cleveland?
400
Name one black civil rights leader/advocate during this time period.
Who are:
W.E.B. Du Bois
Henry Turner
Booker T Washington
Ida B Wells
400
Who was the most famous leader of Tammany Hall, a NYC political machine?
Bonus Points: Tell me the relationship political machines, like Tammany Hall, had with poor people in cities?
Who is Boss Tweed?
400
What is the SBHS Varsity Beach Volleyball team record so far?
What is 11-7?
500
What industry? Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Ford, Rockefeller, & Morgan.
What is...
Carnegie - Steel
Vanderbilt - Railroads
Ford - Automobiles
Rockefeller - Oil
JP Morgan - Banking
500
What legislation banned most Chinese immigration to the U.S.?
(+100 the year it was passed)
(+100 the President who passed it)
What is Chinese Exclusion Act?
1882
Chester Arthur
500
What law gave Native Americans citizenship if they denounced their tribe & took up residency on single family plots of land?
What is The Dawes Severalty Act?
500
What were the establishments that provided support services to poor immigrants, (education, healthcare, childcare, and employment resources)?
+100 pts: Name the famous woman who established these in Chicago
What are Settlement Houses?
Jane Addams
500
Which President had the most children living at the White House during his term?
(+100 for # of kids)
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
6 kids